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02/23/2026
The longtime issue of drug shortages persists in medical practice. To better cope, get more proactive about tracking and ordering supplies.
02/23/2026
The CPT manual includes many types of biopsies: fine needle aspiration (FNA), core needle and skin (tangential, punch and incisional). Some of the guidelines tend to be confusing, particularly those for FNA and core needle biopsies performed at the same surgical session. Cut through the confusion with a clear-eyed look at coding best practices.
02/23/2026
Help your clinicians and coders connect on team-based care management and value-based care (VBC) by explaining the role coding plays in treating patients and patient attribution. During the final Q&A session of the CPT & RBRVS 2026 Annual Symposium, a variety of health care professionals who had given presentations on teams-based and value-based care fielded questions from symposium attendees.
02/23/2026
After releasing its General Compliance Program Guidance in 2023, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is continuing to deliver supplemental guides geared toward specific subsectors of the health care industry. Released on Feb. 3, the Medicare Advantage (MA) Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance (ICPG) details several key risk areas relevant to the MA program and provides recommendations to various parties to mitigate these risks.
02/23/2026
Of the top 15 codes that practices reported with modifier 59 (Distinct procedural service), only a handful saw positive movement in denial rates between 2023 and 2024, and lesion-destruction codes once again fronted the list.

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